The managers of passenger transportation routes that do not comply with the requirement to set up yellow license plates risk being penalized. After a pause of about one month and a half, during which the carriers could comply with this requirement without being penalized, in March the National Auto Transport Agency resumes inspections.
Contacted IPN, head of the Agency’s Road Transport Control Division Vitalie Chiriac said after the amendments made to the Contravention Code took effect last July, the inspection duty was transmitted from the National Patrolling Inspectorate to the National Auto Transport Agency. But the Agency started to carry out inspections last October only, after the moratorium imposed by the Government was lifted.
Since then and until the second half of this January, the Agency has compiled 121 reports and fines of 6,000 to 7,000 lei were imposed on private individuals and of 20,000 to 22,500 lei were put on legal entities. There were mainly penalized private individuals.
In the second half of January, the Ministry of Transport and Road Infrastructure made an order whereby the inspections in the field were suspended. The carriers were given time to comply. From March, the inspections are resumed.
The decision for the passenger transporting vehicles in Moldova to have yellow license plates was approved by the Government and took effect in March 2014. The yellow license plates are similar to the ordinary ones by size, emblem and combination of letters and digits.
